Electronics

Dance Electronic Electronics Pop 

Cities Made of Light: Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine Turns 45

May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, Capitol Records, David Bowie, Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine, The Sex Pistols, The Stooges

Looking back on the German group’s most human album

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Alternative Rock Art Pop Electronic Electronics Experimental Films Instrumental Pop 

Golden Hours: Brian Eno at 75

May 15, 2023May 16, 2023 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Brian Eno, Cluster, David Bowie, David Byrne, Devo, Harold Budd, John Cage, John Cale, Jon Hassell, Nico, Paul Simon, Phil Manzanera, Robert Fripp, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, U2, Ultravox

Looking back on the career of rock’s avant-garde icon

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Dream Pop Electronic Electronics New Wave Pop Remembrance Soundtracks and Film Scores 

Out of Noise: Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 Jim Allen 0 Comments David Bowie, David Sylvian, Iggy Pop, Japan, Kazumi Watanabe, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, RIP, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Youssou N’Dour, Yukihiro Takahashi

The Japanese giant’s career ranged from electronic to orchestral and beyond

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Electronics New Wave Pop Remembrance 

Song of the Neuromancer: Remembering Yukihiro Takahashi

February 3, 2023 Jim Allen 0 Comments Japan, Japanese, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Soul Train, Synthesizers, Synthpop, Yellow Magic Orchestra, YMO, Yukihiro Takahashi

Saluting the synth-pop pioneer who slipped away too soon

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Art Pop Electronics Rock 

LISTEN: Peter Gabriel Shares New Single

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments Brian Eno, David Rhodes, I/O, Manu Katche, Panopticom, Peter Gabriel, single, Tony Levin

“Panopticom” offers taste of the singer’s first proper studio album in 20 years

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Electronics Experimental Indie Rock Instrumental 

LISTEN: Kramer Shares “Burial at Sea” Off New Album

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Daniel Johnston, Galaxie 5000, John Zorn, Kramer, Music for Films Edited by Moths, Shimmy Disc, White Zombie, Will Oldham

The ambient Music for Films Edited by Moths, out tomorrow on Shimmy-Disc

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Electronic Electronics Remembrance 

Remembering Mira Calix

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Aphex Twin, Autechre, Chantal Francesca Passamonte, Mira Calix, RIP, Warp Records

The groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist was a true Warp Records original

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Classical Electronics 

ALBUMS: Grace, Gravity and the Sad/Happy of the Strange and Simple

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2022, Bjarni Biering, Charles Ives, Curious Music, John Cage, La Monte Young, Moondog, The Andvaka Suite

Icelandic composer Bjarni Biering engages us with everyday beauty

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Electronics Experimental Psychedelics 

Submersible Sleep Dealer: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica Turns 10

January 5, 2022April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2011, Dan Lopitan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica, Warp Records

You can tell from the opening seconds that Daniel Lopatin was ushering in a new kind of ambient soundscape with his 2011 masterpiece

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Electronics 

Melt Your Phace6: Aphex Twin’s Drukqs Turns 20

October 24, 2021April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 1 Comment 2001, 20th Anniversary, Aphex Twin, Blame Game, Chris Rock, Dillinger Escape Plan, Drukqs, Kanye West, Mike Patton, Warp Records

Looking back on the polarizing 2001 double opus of Richard D. James

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Electronics Industrial jazz 

ALBUMS: Graham Haynes meets Submerged In A Singular Soundclash

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 Michael McKeegan 0 Comments 2021, Aphex Twin, Burning Ambulance, DJ Cam, Echolocation, Graham Haynes, Kurt Gluck, Ohm Resistance, Submerged, Therapy?, Witchman

It’s impressive to find an album as immersive as Echolocation

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Electronics Experimental jazz Remembrance 

You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Bluescreen, Brian Eno, Fourth World, Jazz, Jon Hassell, RIP

The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84

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Art Pop Electronics Experimental Hard Rock Progressive Rock 

Robert Fripp At 75

May 15, 2021May 15, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Britney Spears, Daryl Hall, Frippertronics, Genesis, Judas Priest, King Crimson, Metallica, Peter Gabriel, Progressive Rock, Robert Fripp, Toyah, Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lockdown Lunch

From King Crimson to singing Prodigy in his kitchen, the legendary guitarist still keeps us surprised at every turn

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Electronic Electronics Indie Rock Pop 

Sufjan Stevens: Aural Adventures in Pandemic Pop

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 Don McLeese 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Celebrations, Convocations, Fetch The Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple, Invocations, Lamentations, Meditations, Revelations, Sufjan Stevens, The Ascension

The ever-ambitious album artist reconfigures the five stages of grief for electronic instrumentation

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Electronics Hip Hop 

Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 2021, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Lyn Collins, Madlib, Madlib Invazion, Otis Jackson Jr, Sound Ancestors, Young Marble Giants

What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance

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